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    PSALMS 137

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      1  The constancy of the Jews in captivity.
     7  The prophet curses Edom and Babel.
    
    
    VERSE 1
    - A.M. cir. 3463.  B.C. cir. 541. (Title.)
      The author of this beautiful and affecting elegy is unknown,
      but the occasion is evident; and it was most probably
      composed during, or near the close of, the captivity.
    
    - the rivers.
       * Ge 2:10-14 Ezr 8:21,31 Eze 1:1
    - there sat.
       * Ne 1:3,4; 2:3 Job 2:12,13 Jer 13:17,18; 15:17 La 2:10 Eze 3:15
    - we wept.
       * Ps 42:4; 102:9-14 Isa 66:10 Jer 51:50,51 La 1:16; 2:11,18; 3:48,51
       * Da 9:3; 10:2,3 Lu 19:41 Re 11:3
    
    
    VERSE 2 
     - we hanged.
      Willows were so plentiful at Babylon, on the banks of the
      Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it "the brook or river of
      willows."
    
       * Ps 33:2; 81:2 Isa 24:8 Eze 26:13 Am 8:10 Re 18:22
    
    
    VERSE 3 
     - For there.
       * :3 123:3,4 La 2:15,16
    - a song.  Heb. the words of a song.  wasted us.  Heb. laid us
      on heaps.
       * :1 79:1 Ne 4:2 Jer 9:11; 26:18 Mic 3:12 Lu 21:6
    - the songs of Zion.
       * Ps 9:14; 65:1 1Ch 15:27; 16:7 Isa 35:10; 51:11 Jer 31:12,13
       * Re 14:1-3
    
    
    VERSE 4 
     - How shall.
       * Ec 3:4 Isa 22:12 La 5:14,15 Ho 9:4 Am 8:3
    - strange land.  Heb. land of a stranger.
       * Isa 49:21
    
    
    VERSE 5 
     - I forget.
       * :1 84:1,2,10 13 102:13,14 5 122:5-9 Ne 1:2-4; 2:2,3 Isa 62:1,6,7
       * Jer 51:50 Da 6:10,11
    - let my right.
       * Zec 11:17
    
    
    VERSE 6 
     - let my tongue.
       * Ps 22:15 Isa 41:17 La 4:4 Eze 3:26
    - if I prefer.
       * :10 84:10 Mt 6:33 Ac 20:24 Php 1:20 1Th 3:7-9
    - my chief joy.  Heb. the head of my joy.
    
    
    VERSE 7 
     - Remember.
       * :18 74:18; 79:8-12 Ex 17:14 1Sa 15:2 Ho 7:2
    - the children.
       * Isa 63:1-6 Jer 49:7-22 La 4:21,22 Eze 25:12-14 Ob 1:10-14,18-21
    - Rase it.  Heb. make bare.
    
    
    VERSE 8 
     - daughter.
       * Isa 47:1-5 Jer 50:42; 51:33 Zec 2:7
    - who art.
       * Isa 13:1-22; 14:4-24; 21:1; 47:1 Jer 25:12-14; 50:1-64 51:64
       * Re 14:8-11; 17:1-18; 18:6
    - destroyed.  Heb. wasted.  happy.
       * :6 149:6-9 Isa 13:3-5; 44:28 Re 17:5,6,14; 18:6,20
    - rewardeth. etc.  Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which
      thou didst unto us.
       * Jer 50:15-29 Re 18:6
    
    
    VERSE 9 
     - and dasheth.
       * Isa 13:16 Ho 10:14; 13:16
    - the stones.  Heb. the rock.
    
    
    
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